TOM FRENCH
THE FORMER WASPS, NOTTINGHAM, LONDON WELSH & ENGLAND SAXONS PROP

THE 2007 Heineken Cup Final was probably my 50th game of that season, attitudes to player welfare back then were very different to today! Most of those games were in National 2 South for Henley Hawks, who I’d been loaned out to from Wasps, where I was an academy player.
Obviously, I didn’t expect to be involved in the final against Leicester, but with Tim Payne out injured since Christmas and a whole other set of circumstances going in my favour, I actually started at loose-head, against Julian Whi...